Training: Adobe Photoshop basics for Adobe Captivate 5.5 users – Part 1

February 29, 2012

Date and time: Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific

Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the first part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.

What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Export the Captured images from Adobe Captivate for editing, edit it in Adobe Photoshop, and import it back into Adobe CaptivateUnderstand the image and canvas dimensionsCreate backgrounds using different tools available in Adobe PhotoshopCreate image masks to edit the imagesCreate Transparent PNGs to be used inside Adobe Photoshop

To Register: http://adobe.ly/z3GWyK

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Training: Adobe Photoshop basics for Adobe Captivate 5.5 users – Part 2

February 29, 2012

Date and time: Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific

Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the second part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Create graphics to be used as buttons in Adobe CaptivateCreate graphics to be used as Text Caption BackgroundsUnderstand and create layer compsUse the layer comps in Adobe Captivate for various layouts

To Register: http://adobe.ly/zjHYlu

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Excel: The basics (video)

To smash the words instead of numbers, for those of us who Excel can be intimidating. We don't know the difference between a workbook and a worksheet, and certainly do not know questions you conditional formatting (a cool way of how data).  Then one day your boss asks you to create a report-with numbers. SIP.

In this video, which show how Office 911 emergency responder add to a table a beginning Excel user to a worksheet, so that they better organize and can view their data.

So, what's a worksheet?  Is the place to Excel where you enter, organize, edit and report data.  A workbook is composed of several worksheets.  Still confused? In this short video then visit the page Excel skills Builder, where you can move at your own pace through Excel lessons for beginners.

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Photoshop Basics

One of my friends had been saving for some time buy the
Legendary Photoshop. The software of choice by
graphic designers, journalists tabloid soulless and artists
around the world, he knew that he was an excellent choice. It
imagined that his life would be complete when it buys
Photoshop. Life would be breezy, it would hover around its
laptop doing exceptional images, whenever he wanted. But
Finally, he bought the package of Photoshop, it was
completely lost.

You should not have to go through this tragedy. You deserve
better. Photoshop can be expensive, but anyone who knows
How to use properly you will say it is worth every cent.
As anything else, you will have to make mistakes and learn
by yourself, exploration of the interface of the software. One
How to help is to go to "Preferences". Here you can improve
the performance of your Photoshop.

Here are some tips to get you started. Locate the
"History Log" on the screen. This is where you can save
your progress while you edit your picture. The few
options to customize your session. Select for example
"Sessions only" to make the log remember the time and the DATS
as you start each session. Choose "Concise" recall
more information on your work. And you can choose
"Detailed" for more information, details of registration on
each edition that do you to the image.

If you go to the preferences you can change the algorithm
options to improve the performance of your software. The
colour is determined by the color picker. Windows and Adobe are
the most common choices. Resizing of an image is the
"Interpolation of images" algorithm. Majority of people Th
Select "bicubic Interpolation".

The best way to learn more about your new tool in Photoshop is to
Explore! Read what you can find on the use of Photoshop
and the use of tutorials. Piece of theatre and the practice... you can learn quickly
the basic principles and eventually you will master the creation of
Amazing graphics and photos!

It is contrary to what it is that you've never seen before. It is a step by step totally unique video training system, designed to make any user novice completely confident with Photoshop in record time. Only 2 hours from now you will be able to produce your own charts quickly, easily and completely free stress!

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Back to the basics: without code application development with access

Every now and then I have a home project for which I can't afford (or does not want to employ) a professional home contractor. Sometimes are too expensive, they do not believe that my home project is large enough, or want to take the time to understand what I want to do. Therefore, that I like companies such as Home Depot, Lowe's and ACE hardware. I know that I can go there shop around for the materials and tools, talk to some people who are more than I experts and come with newfound confidence, that I can create a new Office in my house or a new deck, or simply make a number of small but complex fixes around the House. I do not my life as a professional contractor, but as the people at Home Depot saying, "You can do it, we can help."
As a person, whose Karriere has centered on software development, I feel really passionate about users who are not professionals in software development in contrast to many of us. How they solve their problems too, if they cannot afford or do not meet, professional developers? Or what if we went all DevConnections in Orlando, Florida, this week?
One of the great advantages of Microsoft Access is how it helps create people easy applications, which would otherwise require the expertise of a professional developer.  While users can create Microsoft Access solutions, code with, such as Visual Basic or SQL, today we with you who would like to speak non-professional, can a few features that you create applications, write no code.
At the high level, you can create Microsoft Access data by three main tasks of tracking applications:
a) store and track your data: it is very easy to create the tables where your data is stored, and create forms on these tables, so that you enter, edit, change and delete your information. It is also easy, your data with Datasheet views (as opposed to a set of data views) to navigate. Of course you want your data, to be exact, and you can do access by defining validation rules, you can use on your data want to enforce. For example, you can ensure that the color of a product is one, or that the prices are non-negative for your products.
b) combine and design your data: once you have data stored in your tables, you can it, combine, create joining two tables, or by using external data. For example, can you the data in your invoices table with the data in your product information table "join". In access, you can do this by querying create essentially different views against your data.
c) reporting on your data: as soon as you stored data and it designed by querying, you can easily create reports against it. These reports you can create buzz, order your information based on a field of interest (for example, in descending order of price) and so on. Reports must be carried out only in access, you can also export it to Excel, where you can analyze your findings.
These three activities constitute the core of a data access page tracking application. Professional developers with professional development tools for hours create similar applications with tools like Visual Studio, and you then deploy it to their users. However this type of personal or team-based application can be created with access, in minutes, without writing code. In addition you can be deployed easily desktops on Microsoft SharePoint to people. In this way, an application for other users can be released while the information in SharePoint remains centralized.
In summary you keep in mind that, if you a small project to your information to track, with access, "can you do it, and we can help." In the next blog post, we are directly in access to illustrate.

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Back to the basics in access: fast reporting

In the previous post, we gave many examples of this, as access to really create quickly and easily a database. We mentioned as areas where access is fast and flexible queries, reports, data validation and display data in Excel. In this post, I will focus on reporting.

The last post mentioned the possibility, create reports to order information and create buzz with an access report. The following, I will show a brief example, how simple, quick and clean with access to you can give.

I have alive parents, Margaret, are working their be cookie orders for her son class school project to track. Margaret creates a table cookies ("product information") and table ("invoices") and a query combines the two. It then makes a quick-create report based on the query.

 

Margaret chocolate has several orders cookies from their staff for sugar cookies and Mint, so she wants the orders from cookie type and the number group each cookie needed, to fill their orders of. For clicking on the button & group sort .

 

You access grouping and sorting options at the bottom of her report.

After it is group of "Cookie decides" and a few quick has, its shape looks like this:

 

Their orders are now a few.  But when she gets more orders, she know that they want to have added no more than 100 orders by hand. So she created a total fast for their Qty field and positioned it in addition to the rest of their Commons. You choose the Qty field, and then click the totals button & group sort.

 

And here is the finished product in print preview:

 

Margaret has with a few clicks and two minutes a pretty report, you follow the new orders that they receive, when she leads morning work help. And by the side view, has to show a high-fidelity printable report to the other parties involved parents.

This example shows how quickly you can create a pretty report with grouping and totals in access for this much larger datasets that you can have. Of course you need to manage and edit that data outside of the reporting and access allows you to do many other tasks quickly and easily.

--Joshua Nogales

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